The largest celebration of Italian culture and film outside Italy, the ST. ALi Italian Film Festival, returns to cinema screens this September – October with an unmissable selection of the best new Italian cinema!

IFF26 Life is Life

IFF26 Holy Cannoli

IFF26 Sweetheart

IFF26 Separate Beds

IFF26 Nino. 18 Days

IFF26 Three Goodbyes

IFF26 Classmates

IFF26 Incanto

IFF26 The Eyes of Others

IFF26 The Greater Good

IFF26 Twin Stars

IFF26 A Beautiful Day

IFF26 A Brief Affair

IFF26 Almost Grazia

IFF26 Andrea's Island

IFF26 Anna Magnani - The Untold Story

IFF26 Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion

IFF26 A Year of School

IFF26 Brunello, The Gracious Visionary

IFF26 Bellissima

IFF26 Beloved

IFF26 For You

IFF26 La Scala: The Force of Destiny

IFF26 Show Me the Truth

IFF26 The Echo Chamber

IFF26 Illusion

IFF26 I Want Her Dead

IFF26 Love Divine

IFF26 Malavia

IFF26 Mamma Roma

IFF26 Sand Roads

IFF26 The Lesson

IFF26 Words Left Unspoken

Festival Highlights

24 September - 18 October

ST. ALi Italian Film Festival

Presenting the best of Greek cinema, bringing the stories, landscapes and spirit of Greece to the big screen. 

GFF26 Best Friends Forever

GFF26 Acropolis Cats and Other Wondrous Animals

GFF26 A Spartan Dream

GFF26 Beachcomber

GFF26 Bearcave

GFF26 Don't Laugh, They'll See You

GFF26 Broken Vein

GFF26 Electra7

GFF26 Greece 3.0

GFF26 Elena's Shift

GFF26 Hen

GFF26 Geloioi Erotes

GFF26 Kapodistrias

GFF26 Novak

GFF26 Female

GFF26 Endless Land

GFF26 Hold Onto Me

GFF26 Patty is Such a Girly Name

GFF26 Receptions

GFF26 I Will Love You in November

GFF26 They Come Out of Margo

GFF26 Eva

GFF26 I Was a Stranger

GFF26 The Way Elsewhere

GFF26 Where Shadows Rest

GFF26 Maya & Samar

GFF26 The Anything

GFF26 Zealotis

13 – 25 October

31st Greek Film Festival

The Japanese Film Festival Australia returns for its landmark 30th year with screenings in Canberra, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney from September to December. Since its inception in 1997, the festival has introduced Australian audiences to the dynamic voices shaping Japanese cinema, and is now one of the largest celebrations of Japanese films in the world.   

JFF26 Look Back

JFF26 The Samurai and the Prisoner

JFF26 Tokyo Taxi

JFF26 1ST KISS

JFF26 All You Need Is Kill

JFF26 Anymart

JFF26 Bring Him Down to a Portable Size

JFF26 ChaO

JFF26 Chimney Town: Frozen in Time

JFF26 Hula Girls

JFF26 Junk World

JFF26 Purehearted

JFF26 Samurai Vengeance

JFF26 Sham

JFF26 SUZUKI=BAKUDAN

JFF26 The Girl Who Sees

JFF26 We are Aliens

12 November – 20 December

Japanese Film Festival 2026

29 October – 17 November

17 November – 29 November

13 – 21 October

The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) is the home of the most comprehensive selection of Jewish-themed films in Australia. Each year, the world’s best new films come to cinemas across Australia for up to 10 weeks of inspiring and entertaining premiere screenings and special events. JIFF is building on a long and proud 30-year history of Jewish film festivals in Australia. 

JIFF26 A Man Of His Time

JIFF26 Block 10

JIFF26 Cancelled

JIFF26 Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls

JIFF26 Elena's War

JIFF26 Ethan Bloom

JIFF26 Frontier

JIFF26 Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny

JIFF26 Influenced

JIFF26 Holofiction

JIFF26 Just an Illusion

JIFF26 Labors of Love: Henrietta Szold

JIFF26 Lansky: The Jewish Godfather

JIFF26 Mariana's Room

JIFF26 My Underground Mother

JIFF26 Nuremberg 45

JIFF26 Proud Jewish Boy

JIFF26 Tell Me Everything

JIFF26 Sapiro v. Ford

JIFF26 The Heroes of the Louvre

JIFF26 The Mad Dog of Europe

JIFF26 Think Good

JIFF26 To Kill A Nazi

22 October - 4 November

Jewish International Film Festival 2026

For twenty years, the Byron Bay International Film Festival has brought audiences together around films that surprise us, move us, make us laugh and open a window onto lives and worlds beyond our own. In 2026, BBFF celebrates its 20th edition with a program that is broad, eclectic and full of discovery.

BBFF26 All of a Sudden

BBFF26 American Doctor

BBFF26 Big Girls Don't Cry

BBFF26 Bitter Christmas

BBFF26 Boss Cat

BBFF26 Broken English

BBFF26 Crack Me Open

BBFF26 Hen

BBFF26 International Shorts - Short Film Session

BBFF26 Late Fame

BBFF26 Stay Strange Short Film Session

BBFF26 Sweet Milk Lake

BBFF26 That Half Barbaric Twang

BBFF26 The Best Summer

BBFF26 The Cycle of Love

BBFF26 The Fox

BBFF26 The Lightkeeper

BBFF26 The Oligarch and the Art Dealer

BBFF26 Guided by Horses

16 – 25 October

Byron Bay International Film Festival

Returning to cinemas this October with a spectacular line up of exquisite dramas, charming comedies, fascinating documentaries and much-loved retrospectives, starring some of Britain’s finest talent!

BFF26 My Duchess

BFF26 Elsinore

BFF26 Ink

BFF26 Wicker

BFF26 A Talent for Murder

BFF26 Prima Facie

BFF26 Parky

BFF26 The Uprising

BFF26 500 Miles

Writer-director Nick Moorcraft returns with MOTHER'S PRIDE, a deeply moving and heartfelt underdog comedy about family, second chances and community.

BFF26 Mother's Pride

BFF26 Tender Loving Care

BFF26 Bad Apples

BFF26 Savage House

BFF26 Butterfly Stroke

BFF26 Last Orders

BFF26 A Long Winter

BFF26 The French Lieutenant's Woman

BFF26 The Three Urns

BFF26 The Match

BFF26 The Man Who Fell to Earth

BFF26 The Lost Children of Tuam

BFF26 The Incomer

BFF26 Sunny Dancer

BFF26 Shirley Valentine

BFF26 Queen at Sea

BFF26 Virginia Woolf's Night & Day

BFF26 Frank and Percy

BFF26 Onwards and Sideways

BFF26 Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

BFF26 Hill

BFF26 Hamlet

BFF26 Flavia

BFF26 Extra Geography

BFF26 Everybody to Kenmure Street

BFF26 California Schemin'

BFF26 Borges and Me

5 November – 6 December

Russell Hobbs British Film Festival

29 October – 29 November

28 October – 29 November

From gripping dramas and powerful documentaries to fresh new voices shaping Irish cinema, the Irish Film Festival Australia returns to Palace cinemas in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Canberra from 8 October til 9 November 2026.

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